Bird Box — It’s What We’re Reading

A monthly offering from Drexel Library’s staff about the books we’ve read.

Bird Box
Malerman, Josh

You’ll be unable to take your eyes away from this crisp, taut tale. Josh Malerman’s novel is a page-turning combination of Stephen King’s The Mist and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

Imagine spending years raising two babies alone. Imagine feeling constant terror that you or your children may glimpse a “creature,” the mere sight of which causes lethal insanity.

But you know of a safe haven, 20 miles downriver. You know you must eventually get yourself and your children there, but how?

This is the plight of heroine Malorie. You’ll admire her courage and determination while wondering how you would manage in her situation.

Bird Box is compelling because it forces the reader to imagine the horrors barely but beautifully described within it. There is nothing scarier than one’s own imagination. This is the author’s debut novel. I can’t imagine what comes next.

Bird Box is shelved in the Popular Reading on the First Floor of the Post Learning Commons.